Chrystal Path Welcomes You

Reiki healing goes back a long long way.  Forgive this very elementary explanation, but I will enclose some information and history for you to read towards the end of this page.   My goals are to teach and guide all those seeking relief from pain, illness, grief and more and to help heal them and teach them to heal themselves...to be a good channel for Reiki energy to help and to heal all who come looking.

Reiki can heal and help via distance.  I can send Reiki via phone, using Skype {free camera online connection), Messenger, or I can just "send" it with pure intent to help and heal.  I have a Reiki Shop, Chrystal Path in Knoxville Pa for Reiki in person.  You should drink plenty of water before and after a Reiki session because it will help cleanse the toxins from your body.  Do try to avoid caffeine, or at least cut back that day and eat lightly. You may feel very relaxed or even sleepy after, but the "call of nature" will bring you around in a bit...these are the toxins and negativity leaving your body.  Reiki feels different to each person.  Some feel a warmth, a vibration, a tingling, a buzzing or even a coolness, some feel absolutely nothing physically but do feel very relaxed and soothed during and after.  Reiki treats the mind, body and soul...cleansing, healing, and soothing. 

 You are fully clothed and lay on a comfortable Reiki/massage type table OR sit in a comfortable chair.  Prices range from $25 to $40 depending on the length of our session...most sessions are 40 to 60 mins in length, but can go longer.  Do note that no one goes without help for lack of funds....we can always find a way to exchange something to balance the energy and...trade and barter is most welcome.                                                             

   Distance healing can take 20- 60 minutes, and you recieve Reiki energy sent to you to help with your specific needs, the same as if I were doing the session in person.  We can set a time and you call me or I can call you as my long distance is free, if you wish it.  I have also sent healing while on Yahoo Messenger...the give and take there is very theraputic. 

  I like to have a dialog (email, phone, or messenger) prior to our session if possible.   A quiet time should be chosen when you can relax and enjoy the experience, no jumping dogs, children or spouses needing you for at least an hour, no cell phones calling....just you and I on the telephone, computer or just joined in mind and spirit for that special time.   Please feel free to call or email me and discuss it, discussion is always free.

{If you prefer, I can send Reiki long distances "without a phone call" for yourself, a relative, or friend, but do be sure the Reiki energy is wanted.}

   Please inquire for your rate depending on your need.    I refuse no one for lack of funds but do try to exchange something goods wise if not money wise.  I have some lovely quilting, some flowers, beautiful pictures, beads and more.   I will trade and barter to help you and yours to keep the energies balanced for both of us.  I work with all animals and adults and children.   Reiki classes are available at the shop, in person, or on the internet.

                                             Contact me at chrystalpaths@yahoo.com      607-525-6610 

Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese word representing universal life energy, the energy which is all around us. It is derived from rei: meaning "free passage"and ki: meaning "vital life force energy". 

The Japanese art of Reiki was discovered by Dr. Mikao Usui in 1922 when he went on a meditation and fasting retreat to Mount Kurama in Kyoto. Since that time, Reiki has spread all over the world, giving joy, healing, and happiness to millions of people from all races, religions and social backgrounds.

 

Level One Reiki class w/ attunement is $75

I have decided to share much of the information I share with my students and seekers here on the website.  Mind, this is not gospel but all is true to my knowledge and experience.  Each Reiki Master/Teacher has their own way of teaching....I hope you'll enjoy this bit of mine and if you have any questions or comments please feel free to share them.

This manual, I smile, more missive, is very informal and may not have as much as others but, it holds within it the purity and truth of Reiki without frills and ego.  Take what you wish, learn all you can, then make it your own in goodness and beauty and heal.  Class can be in person or via the internet and phone.

The Reiki Principles

Dr. Usui gave us the Reiki Life Principles to help orient our mind toward a more conscious life. 

He recited them each day, used them as affirmations with his students. 

Just for today-do not anger

Just for today-do not worry

Just for today-be grateful

Just for today-work hard

 (in the sense of putting your heart & soul into all things you do)

Just for today-be kind to others.

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Each morning (and night if you can) sit (or stand) in the Gassho position and say the principles, let them echo in your mind and heart.

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Gassho

Very simply, Gassho is a way to ground and center your very loud and busy mind and body.  Sit comfortably on a mat or chair, (if sitting is difficult standing is fine) bring the palms of your hands together palm to palm with the pressure mostly at the tips of your middle fingers and hold them at about chest level but not resting on your body

(now, if  you cannot hold your arms away,  this is fine...some even rest the tips of their fingers at the chin, pure intent is more important than form)

 Everybody breathes, BUT in truth, most do not.  Oh they live and breathe but to truly breathe one must find their center.  Your center is located about 3 fingers below your navel.  Place your hand softly there and breathe in through your nose...does your tummy lift?  Probably not...most folks breathe in their upper chest, ribs and even then very shallowly.  I want you to close your eyes and breathe in gently trying to fill yourself gently with real breath and lift that part of your tummy.  Try to fill all of you gently, bronchials, lungs, and your center.  If you do it right, your tummy will lift!  Then slowly breathe out through soft pursed lips.  Do this several times and you should feel a relaxation fill you...a feeling of being centered and calm.

Now you are ready to learn and experience Reiki and join me in the wonderful journey towards your first set of attunements to Level One.

I am a bit of different guide/teacher than some.  I would like very much for you to go find a nice surrogate...a stuffed bear or nice pillow, something you can practice on.  Each day I will fill your surrogate with Reiki energy when I do a nightly Reiju/Reiki to help guide and fill everyone who wishes it with light and Reiki energy.

I do not teach the hand positions you will find in other manuals (I can provide them) instead I ask you to trust your hands and your energy to guide you, use your surrogate or whom ever you have in hand to help.  Hand positions were taught to help with focus in large classes in Japan, for organizing and keeping the class together Reiki works if you wish it, intent is all, use the hand positions if they speak to you, or trust your hands to glide and speak...it is your choice.  Follow your inner voice and heart to reach the guides and ascended masters, and become Reiki.

I encourage you to spend time on the computer and reading and learning as much as you can about Reiki, Reiju, attunements and the history of Dr. Makao Usui.

I will try to answer a few basic questions most seekers ask.

*What is Reiki?

  I believe Dr. Usui's purpose was to teach/share Reiki to help people fulfill their lives in peace and happiness, to give them physical and mental and spiritual health.  In doing this they can enhance the happiness and wellness of those around them by healing not only themselves but others they encounter in poor health, a lost soul, or a challenged mind & heart.  Reiki does heal.  One session sometimes does amazing healing but you may find a series of sessions helps the healing continue and also helps get one's own body to healing itself.

 *What does Reiki help?

   Reiki is effective for treating/healing all kinds of illness, both physical and psychological.  (emotional, mental, spiritual) Pain management, depression, grief, injury, burns, and more, Reiki can help in all things, with all things. 

 *Can Reiki only heal the sick?

  No, it is effective for treating illness and sickness and injury but also heals trauma to mind/spirit as well as body.  Reiki helps with shyness, insecurity, depression, and more.  Reiki can only do good, it can never do harm.  By learning Reiki you heal yourself and can heal others, this brings great joy and peace to you and those you share with.

 *Should this Healing Ability be limited to a select few?

  I smile.  No, it is in the sharing and teaching and learning that we expand ourselves and others. One at a time we help the world feel well, feel better and stronger, and in that, peace and hope can fill our world.  Pass it on is what Reiki is, life energy.   Reiki embodies this ability, this power, and is available for everyone to learn and practice with the proper guidance and attunements.  Anyone with hope and desire to help themselves and/or others can learn and practice Reiki healing.

*What does it feel like?

  Ah well, each individual feels Reiki differently.  Some do not feel much at all but do feel the effects it brings to their bodies, minds, and spirits.  Others will feel warmth, sometimes intense heat, some feel coolness, a tingling or pulsing can also been felt.  It truly depends on how the practitioner and the Reiki blends with who is being touched thus my suggesting the bear/pillow surrogate, though you can use your own body.  He, or she, will heat or cool or pulse just a human body would.  You should come to the Reiki with pure intent.  Make  your chosen surrogate your body and begin. 

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Now we will begin a bit of practice.  Here we are in this 21^st century full of amazing technology.  I wonder what Dr. Usui would have thought of utilizing the telephone, the computer and even web cams to teach and share his hopes and dreams that were that are...Reiki?

 What I like to do is take a bit of time each week and share with each other.  You already know your surrogate is filled each night with Reiki and you (hopefully) have sat with it either that night or the next day and tried to become one with it as your hands touch it, so that the energy flows into you from the surrogate.  As you touch the neck of the teddy (or whatever surrogate you chose) your own neck may grow warm....and so on down the surrogate.  Ok? Your hands become sensitive as you open to the Reiki as well.

 Then contact me and we can discuss how you came to feel with the surrogate and what it brought it to you.  You're ready for your attunements now.

 

Most Level One students have a hard time understanding how to turn it on.   I smile.  Just think quietly or out loud, and ask the Masters and Guides, your totems and angels even, to grant you with the power of Reiki intent  to help and to heal yourself (in Level 2 you can add symbols if you wish to).  I am forever available to you for any questions or difficulties.

 By practicing with the surrogate you get the feeling of bringing Reiki into you, and your hands, and/or body, may get warm or pulse or tingle.  We'll do this for a short while.  We can have our actual class in person, by phone, or IM, and even by cam on the computer.  We will have our question and answer time, I will practice a bit of sending and you receive and share your feelings. 

I will ask you to go lie down or sit comfortably and I will send you a distance Reiki, if we are working at a distance, if you are with me you will lay or sit.   Use all I have explained in the beginning to calm and relax then just let it be.  Later that day or the next, contact me again and we'll discuss your feelings and questions.  Mind you lay quiet after the session, take time to come back to yourself and breathe before getting up.  Drink lots of water, eat a light snack maybe and reflect on how you feel, what you felt.

 I encourage you to read everything you can get hold of be it a book, an online site, or other Reiki Practitioners to get a well rounded picture of Reiki.   You will find some who will say their variation of Reiki is the only way.  I smile, Reiki IS!  Dr. Usui discovered a pure energy to help and to heal while on his quest.  If your intent is pure, you can't do it wrong.   Remember Reiki can do no harm.

I will include some links to online places I think you will enjoy reading.  I'll give you a book titled Light on the Origins of Reiki.

Reiki has no EGO.  There is no place for ego, we are the vessel of light and healing.  Reiki and you become one, you become a vessel, a channel for the energy from Source, there is no need to work at it, it never drains your own energy, there is always enough, like love, to go around.

You will find when your hands come on they will travel the body and wish to stop now and then, allow them to do this.  Trust your own instincts.  Allow your hands to remain if they wish to stop, they may get warm or hot, pulse or tingle...then, all this will slow or cool and you will know to move on. 

ALSO...know that Reiki will go to where ever it needs to go even if you touch only one part of yourself or another.  Practice, practice, practice...you can Reiki the water, the Earth, a tree, the flowers, your stones and crystals, your bed, your office,  your pets, your family, friends and do mind yourself especially.  Reiki heals the mind, body, and soul/spirit.  It can help the well rounded healthy person and the person in distress. 

 

Oftimes a physical malady is manifested by an emotional or spiritual disharmony.  Grief is a huge one for putting things out of whack, as are stress and depression.

  I bring this writing to you just like we were talking together.  Reiki has such a wonderful history and you should read it to know some of it...so you can appreciate how it came to be.

 Links:

http://www.reikidharma.com/en/index_en.html

 http://www.aetw.org/reiki_101.html

 Now go look about, there is so much information online, and in books, just remember, we are not Source, God, Spirit, call it what you will..and yet we are...in our goodness and healing intent.

Reiki is pure intent and energy, it uses us as the vessel, it is not US. 

It should never drain you or make you feel depleted.  If it does you aren't trusting in the Reiki energy to heal and help yourself and others.   Through the trust and faith you can and will help and be helped.

 A couple wonderful forums I suggest you check out if you want to learn more about Reiki and discuss it with others:

http://lightingthepathlesstaken.myfastforum.org/index.php

http://northern-lights-healing.invisionzone.com/index.php

 Much care and light

Sage

Level Two Reiki classes w/ attunement  $100.00  chrystalpaths@yahoo.com

Address: DS Chapman  PO Box 37  Knoxville Pa 16928

Chrystal Paths shop is located at 310 Main St Knoxville Pa

at the Knoxville Community Center.  Feel free to come by.

You are welcome to call me if you have a need or question but do try to do so after 8am and before 9pm if possible, if it is really important you can reach me anytime day or night.  I am always available to my students and seekers.  607 525 6610